Georgia

In the Abkhazian port of Gudaut’a on Aug. 8, 2010, Sergei Bagapsh (right), president of the Georgian separatist republic of Abkhazia, meets with Russian Pres. Dmitry Medvedev, who voiced support for Abkhazia’s independence movement. The symbolic meeting took place on the same date that Russian troops had joined the battle in 2008 in the separatist enclave of South Ossetia, fighting against Georgia.